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After speeding the Crimson team to its first ever NCAA National Fencing Championship, Harvard fencers Emily Cross and Benji Ungar have proved their worth again, beating professional competitors to take home a medal each at the World Junior Fencing Championship in Taebacek City, South Korea. Cross was awarded a second consecutive gold medal in Women’s Foil, rising from a tenth-place ranking after the preliminaries to take an easy 15-5 victory over Arianna Errigo of Italy in the finals. Ungar, seeded ninth after the preliminaries, defeated Ciprian Lapuste of Romania 15-9 to advance...
...Cross fenced Errigo in the finals of last year’s World Championships as well, but her margin of victory yesterday was much more secure than that of her tense 15-14 win in the previous title match. “She destroyed her competition, winning the gold medal bout by a resounding score,” said Anne Austin, co-captain of the Women’s Fencing team. “It is very hard to repeat,” Brand said. “A lot of the people she fences at that level are already...
Only weeks removed from leading Harvard to its first NCAA title with a gold-medal effort, sophomore fencer Benjamin Ungar earned another podium finish yesterday at the World Junior Fencing Championship in Taebacek City, South Korea, picking up a bronze medal in men’s epee...
...wrecked his opponent, winning 15-4 to advance to the gold-medal match against Denis Tolkachev of Ohio State...
...afternoon speaker, selected Lehrer for his “objectivity and intelligence” and the respect he inspires, according to the announcement in the Harvard Gazette yesterday. In his over 40 years as a journalist, Lehrer has won numerous awards, including the Presidential National Humanities Medal in 1999. He has also published 15 novels and moderated 10 of the televised presidential candidate debates over the course of the last five elections. Tracy “Ty” Moore ’06, a senior class marshal and member of the Senior Class Committee, said that he approved...